Discrimination

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards watched a key video of Black motorist Ronald Greene's deadly 2019 arrest six months before prosecutors knew it existed. The Democratic governor has distanced himself from allegations of a cover-up, saying evidence was promptly turned over. But an Associated Press investigation found that wasn’t the case with the video he watched in October of 2020. It didn't reach those with the power to charge troopers who stunned, punched and dragged Greene until nearly two years after his death. Edwards' lawyer says the governor couldn't have known at the time that prosecutors didn't have the video.

A jury has convicted a New Hampshire man of first-degree murder for killing his wife’s coworker after he discovered they were texting, and then forcing her to behead him. Armando Barron also was convicted of assaulting his wife, Britany Barron, the night he discovered she had been texting with her coworker, Jonathan Amerault. Prosecutors said he used her cellphone to lure him to a park just north of the Massachusetts state line in September 2020. Barron also was convicted of beating and kicking Amerault, forcing him into his own car and shooting him. Amerault’s mother was in the courtroom and started crying as the verdict was read. The jury in Keene, New Hampshire, had the case for a little under two hours before the verdict.

It’s become a common sight: jubilant Starbucks workers celebrating after successful votes to unionize at dozens of U.S. stores. But when the celebrations die down, a daunting hurdle remains. To win the changes they seek, like better pay and more reliable schedules, unionized stores must sit down with Starbucks and negotiate a contract. It’s a painstaking process that can take years. And it's all happening amid tensions between Workers United, which represents the unionized stores, and the Seattle coffee giant. Already, the NLRB has filed 45 complaints against Starbucks for various labor law violations, including firing workers for union activity. Starbucks has filed two complaints against the union, saying labor organizers harassed and intimidated workers at some stores.

The Palestinian Authority says its investigation into the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh proves that she was deliberately killed by Israeli forces. Israel's defense chief called that “a blatant lie.” Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera’s Arabic service, was shot in the head on May 11 during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian attorney general announced the results of his investigation at a news conference on Thursday. He says soldiers were aware journalists were in the area and that Abu Akleh was shot “directly and deliberately” as she tried to escape.

A new lawsuit says a 13-year-old boy shot in the back by a Chicago police officer was unarmed and had his arms raised to surrender when he was hit by the bullet. Thursday's filing in Chicago federal court says the incident illustrates deeply flawed implementation of department policy on the pursuit of suspects. The filing says the bullet severely damaged part of the Black teenager’s spine when he was shot May 18. Police previously said the boy was in a car suspected of involvement in a carjacking the day before and that he jumped out and ran. He hasn’t been charged. Police Supt. David Brown has said the fleeing teenager turned toward the officer before the officer fired. Chicago's law department says it hadn’t been officially served and wouldn’t comment on pending litigation.

Roman Abramovich's ownership of Chelsea is ending in a way unimaginable when he was on the field in February celebrating the team's FIFA Club World Cup triumph. It was only in November that Abramovich was seen back at Stamford Bridge for the first time in more than three years being feted by the president of Israel for his antisemitism activism. Ultimately, it was Abramovich's ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin that led to him losing control of Chelsea. An enforced sale after Abramovich was sanctioned is concluding after three months with American investor Todd Boehly fronting a new ownership group.

Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers. That's what a witness said Wednesday as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. Juan Carranza saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in. Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Salvador Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people.

Within the eight- and even nine-figure sums trumpeted for CEOs each year, just a small portion is actual cash. Last year, only a little more than a quarter of compensation for the typical CEO came from cash salary or bonus.  Instead, most of a CEO’s pay tends to come from grants of stock and grants of stock options. That’s often by design, because shareholder advocates have pushed for CEO pay to be more closely aligned with their own returns. Companies are also tying some of their CEOs' pay to such considerations as environmental impact as compensation formulas get even more complicated.